The IT media needs SCO's web site.

The IT media needs SCO's web site.

Posted Dec 11, 2003 9:57 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: The IT media needs SCO's web site. by dmarti
Parent article: SCO press release on DDOS attack

SCO has even paid a 10,000 Euro fine because of deceptive statements on the site.

Not quite. Linuxtag in Germany complained to german court that SCO was repeatedly making claims harmful to their bussiness, yet seemed unwilling or unable to back them up with any evidence. The court ordered SCO to either show evidence that the claims where (likely to be) true, or else, stop making them.

SCO choose, of their own volition, to not even attempt to document the claims, but instead to remove all of them from all german communications, including their website www.sco.de

Later, someone discovered that they'd done a poor job of scrubbing the website clean, a few pages with negative claims about Linux remained. It was for this breach of the courts order they where fined 10000 €.

So you're sorta rigth. The claims *are* deceptive. And they *where* fined for still having them there. But they where'nt fined 'cos the claims where deceptive (nor has the court recognized them as such) They where fined because the claims where still there, and the evidence absent, after a court ordered them to put up or shut up.

What buggers me is that something similar cannot be done in the US. It'd be a enormous improvement if SCO would be ordered to stop making ridiculous claims until such time as they are atleast willing to attempt to substantiate them.

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